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by famahar 3y ago
My whole job is to talk to strangers for 4- 8 hours and help their English conversation skills. Everyone I talk to is fascinating and most of the time they just want someone to listen rather than correct their English.
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by famahar 3y ago
What specifically about AI do you want to be worthless?
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by famahar 3y ago
It was just an extra thought in regards to incorporating a sound listening practice in your day to day life.
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by famahar 3y ago
Deep Listening practices by Pauline Oliveros are nice to pair with this. She takes a more mindfulness approach to listening with sound meditation exercises to train your listening skills not just through hearing with your ear, but actually
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by famahar 3y ago
There are so many tools to see how a website looks like on multiple screens / devices. Even full on emulation. I can see a designer making this oversight but a UX designer doing that kinda makes the UX part of the title irrelevant.
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by famahar 3y ago
You're right, framing the discussion around a "more fulfilling" life can limit other important aspects. People are highly complex. Ultimately I think the choice to raise a child comes down to an alignment with a huge set valu
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by famahar 3y ago
Raising a child is a whole lifestyle change. It's a long term commitment and a whole shift in almost every priority in your life. Viewing child care as some challenge that only non-lazy people do is quite a stretch.
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by famahar 3y ago
I hope we one day see a radical new form of raising children. Historically it was truly a village that raised a child. I never understood how my parents raised 5 children. But looking into it more, there was always a community of people tha
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by famahar 3y ago
A lot of parks in the city I grew up in replaced wooden structures in parks with steel and rubber. I think the rationale was that wood was hard to maintain and also super dangerous when it turned into a splinter. We're too squishy for
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by famahar 3y ago
I have fond memories of having swing jumping competitions as a kid. No major injuries. My parents definitely wouldn't approve, but they also would never know. Your kids will probably still do it given the chance. It's too much fun
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by famahar 3y ago
So many of these sites exist. I even made one as a hobby project for learning React. Mine is a bit more involved (learn mode with mnemonics, quiz mode with a timer and different fonts, character filtering and modified characters). Thinking
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by famahar 3y ago
Consumerism in Japan is absolutely wild. Still a bit of a culture shock for me. In the city I lived in Canada you had to go out of your way to shop. Here in Tokyo, it feels like every station has 10 malls literally right next to each other
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by famahar 3y ago
Ooo, thanks for the link. Led me to this interesting app with the same concept https://www.randonautica.com/
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by famahar 3y ago
Great idea! Will be taking this on all my long walks. Tokyo is lovely for this. Neighborhoods are so dense.
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by famahar 3y ago
I agree. I hated walking in the city I lived in Canada before moving to Tokyo. It wasnt very walkable and you really needed to plan for any type of long walk as you might end up in a place with no food or drink shops anywhere. The way Tokyo
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by famahar 3y ago
Total was 90km. It was a mostly straight shot from west edge of tokyo to the east edge passing through central tokyo. It's one of many routes and I only saw a small slice of it. It's a bit of a labyrinth at times if you don't
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by famahar 3y ago
With a disposable you'll need to be more intentional about how you want to capture moments. You only have 20 shots and no extra features to create the "best" shot. You begin to really value moments when you know that it'
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by famahar 3y ago
Started in Hachiōji and ended at the start of Chiba prefecture. The heat made it tough. I was thinking about doing a walk from Tamagawa station to Yokohama this weekend. I love seeing what's between all the stations and building up a n
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by famahar 3y ago
I walked across Tokyo last weekend. Took me 20 hours. I suck at writing so all I'll say is that everyone should walk across a city. It's a magical experience. Turn off your your phone, bring a disposable camera and a compass and j
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by famahar 3y ago
Reminds me of that Kurt Vonnegut quote that has recently become viral. Why buy 100 envelops when you can buy one at a time and go on a tiny neighborhood adventure each time you need to buy a single envelop. You'll see dogs, trees, neig
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by famahar 3y ago
Love this story. The radio play by BBC is also equally incredible.
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by famahar 3y ago
It's shocking how bad it's become. Every google search feels like a bunch of random noise and clickbait. SEO and walled communities killed google search. Just wish there was a search engine that would effectively find info across
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by famahar 3y ago
Was it really peak UI? Software is so much more complex today and accessibility and UX is actually a thing now. I feel like if you tried to make a modern program with a 90s UI approach, it would have glaring flaws.
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by famahar 3y ago
I know some people that got dogs (and kept them thankfully). Having someone in your life who's consistently happy to be in your presence is a pretty good antidepressant.
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by famahar 3y ago
I think we're entering a new paradigm for programming. AI is the tool. Anything that wants to be used heavily should have a training set ready for an AI to learn.
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by famahar 4y ago
Interviews make me realize I don't know how to code on the spot while 4 people (responsible for judging me and determining my worth) watch me. I second guess everything and freeze up. My mental capacity to solve a problem is being take
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by famahar 4y ago
Why not just give them a small (1 hour max) take home assignment with your tech stack, and then have have them talk through their approach in a follow up interview. You can test for all these things in their implementation while giving the
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by famahar 4y ago
Been at it for the past 3 months. It is soul crushing and demoralizing. I'm starting to accept that I would rather work in a toxic company than have to go back job searching.
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by famahar 4y ago
I think most people here love tech. They just hate having to use / build tech in a toxic work environment. I'm happy you found a work environment that lets you fully explore your passion.
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by famahar 4y ago
You haven't found a fulfilling purpose outside of a job then. There was a period in my life where I didn't need to work for a year. I spent it reading books, supporting my friends, exploring my city on bike, learning an instrument

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